There has been a notable improvement in security awareness training and documented procedures among Australian health services, a new survey from the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) has found.

HISA’s 2018 Cybersecurity in Australian Healthcare survey showed an increase over the previous year in security awareness training (59 per cent, up from 36 per cent) documented procedures (68 per cent versus 45 per cent) and evaluation of systems at procurement (51 per cent, up from 36 per cent).